Joe Lavers
The Anticipator: July 2010
Things are just starting to heat up here at The Average Joes. Summer is full speed ahead and I can’t wait to really write down some thoughts deeper than release dates and news summaries. Stay tuned for a bevy of reviews and other fun stuffs. Meanwhile, on with the anticipating! I hear the “Grease” singalong [...]
Around Town: Hero Complex Film Festival
I spent the weekend in Hollywood attending the Los Angeles Times‘ Hero Complex Film Festival. It was a blast getting to know the regulars in line each day and watching these wonderful movies on the big screen, not to mention hearing their directors talk about their experiences making the films and working in the industry. [...]
Around Town: Charlie Chaplin, Hero Complex, and more
The Aero Theatre is screening “Modern Times,” “The Great Dictator,” and many more Charlie Chaplin classics. Cinefamily celebrates Father’s Day with another Chaplin film, “The Kid,” and will be featuring several Buster Keaton shorts at the end of the month. The LACMA film series is back, most notably featuring “Suspicion” on the 22nd and “Forbidden [...]
Midnight Roundup: Marvel’s Avengers, Duncan Jones, and more
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? School’s out and now I can finally devote all my energy to the projects that really matter: Web sites and comic books. I’ll keep it short, but my friend and I have started a comic-book publishing company called Comma Comics. It’s not much to look at now, but we [...]
The Anticipator: June 2010
This summer is continuing its rather weak lineup with “Killers,” “Marmaduke,” “The A-Team,” “The Karate Kid,” and “Grown Ups” padding the box office charts. But the two films that are sure to delight are “Splice” and “Toy Story 3.” One is a low-budget, old-school science fiction creature feature and the other is the finale to [...]
The Anticipator: March 2010
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass have reunited post-Bourne for a slightly more realistic thriller about the hunt for WMD, while in fewer theaters director Bong Joon-ho returns after 2006′s wonderful giant-monster movie, “The Host,” with “Mother,” a story about a woman’s attempt to clear her mentally handicapped son of murder charges. Meanwhile, the animated film [...]
Around Town: Clint Eastwood, Dan O’Bannon, and more
O.K. so the LACMA exhibit I kept telling you about, “Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics,” wasn’t nearly as good as I thought it would be. They kept non-comics pieces separate from the comics, robbing the viewer of any kind of comparison. What comics they did have were mediocre at best, [...]
The Anticipator: February 2010
“Frozen,” a squirm-inducing Sundance entry about snowboarders trapped on a chairlift at a ski resort, has received some decent buzz, but the heavy-hitter for the first half of the month is the troubled production of “The Wolfman.” Benicio del Toro stars as the titular man-monster alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. Multiple directors, reshoots, and [...]
My Year in Film, 2009: Science Fiction
For those just tuning in, I’ve decided to group my best of ’09 list by genre, just so I can get my bearings. I failed to write reviews for so many films this past year that it’s hard to make a complete master list right off the bat. Now that animation and fantasy are out [...]
My Year in Film, 2009: Fantasy
I’ve renamed these “My Year in Film” as opposed to “The Year in Film” after already publishing the first entry, animation. My feeling is that since I’m only listing films I’ve seen and wanted to see, as opposed to every single film I’ve missed—not to mention that these are my opinions and I’m not claiming [...]
